Carrie Preston Quotes

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

I've always been drawn to playing characters that are a completely the opposite of myself.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

If people can see you in a film and not realize it's you until the very end, that's exciting to me.

I choose roles that are not me.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.